PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 47: Learned Helplessness, Conscientiousness, Canoe.Com

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Traits: characteristic pattern of behaviour or a disposition to feel and act as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports. Factor analysis: statistical procedure that has been used to identify clusters of test items that tap basic components of intelligence. Extraverts seek stimulation because their normal brain arousal is relatively low. Personality inventories: a questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviours; used to assess selected personality traits. Minnesota mutiphasic personality inventory (mmpi): most widely researched and clinically used of all personality test. Assesses abnormal personality tendencies rather than normal personality traits. Good way of developing a personality inventory. Empirically derived test: a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups. Personality inventories are scored objectively, so objectively that a computer can administer and score them. Neuroticism (emotional stability vs. instability): calm anxious.